1:1 Blessed {is} the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
1:2 But his delight {is} in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.
1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth
forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper.
1:4 The ungodly {are} not so: but {are} like the chaff which the wind driveth
away.
1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous.
1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly
shall perish.
2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel
together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, {saying},
2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in
derision.
2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore
displeasure.
2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
2:7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou {art} my son;
this day have I begotten thee.
2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give {thee} the heathen {for} thine inheritance, and
the uttermost parts of the earth for {thy} possession.
2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces
like a potter's vessel.
2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
2:11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
2:12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish {from} the way, when his
wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed {are} all they that put their trust in
him.
3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many {are} they that rise up
against me.
3:2 Many {there be} which say of my soul, {There is} no help for him in God.
Selah.
3:3 But thou, O Lord, {art} a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of
mine head.
3:4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill.
Selah.
3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set {themselves}
against me round about.
3:7 Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies
{upon} the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
3:8 Salvation {belongeth} unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people.
Selah.
4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me {when
I was} in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
4:2 O ye sons of men, how long {will ye turn} my glory into shame? how {long}
will ye love vanity, {and} seek after leasing? Selah.
4:3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the
Lord will hear when I call unto him.
4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and
be still. Selah.
4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.
4:6 {There be} many that say, Who will shew us {any} good? Lord, lift thou up
the light of thy countenance upon us.
4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time {that} their corn
and their wine increased.
4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me
dwell in safety.
5:1 Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.
5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my king, and my God: for unto thee will I
pray.
5:3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I
direct {my prayer} unto thee, and will look up.
5:4 For thou {art} not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall
evil dwell with thee.
5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of
iniquity.
5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody
and deceitful man.
5:7 But as for me, I will come {into} thy house in the multitude of thy mercy:
{and} in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
5:8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way
straight before my face.
5:9 For {there is} no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part {is} very
wickedness; their throat {is} an open sepulchre; they flatter with their
tongue.
5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them
out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against
thee.
5:11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever
shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be
joyful in thee.
5:12 For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass
him as {with} a shield.
6:1 O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
6:2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I {am} weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones
are vexed.
6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?
6:4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
6:5 For in death {there is} no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give
thee thanks?
6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water
my couch with my tears.
6:7 Mine eye is consumed because grief; it waxeth old because of all mine
enemies.
6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the
voice of my weeping.
6:9 The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.
6:10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return {and} be
ashamed suddenly.
7:1 O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that
persecute me, and deliver me:
7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending {it} in pieces, while {there is}
none to deliver.
7:3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have
delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take {it}; yea, let him tread down my
life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
7:6 Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine
enemies: and awake for me {to} the judgment that {thou} hast commanded.
7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes
therefore return thou on high.
7:8 The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my
righteousness, and according to mine integrity that {is in} me.
7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just:
for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
7:10 My defence {is} of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry {with the wicked} every day.
7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it
ready.
7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his
arrows against the persecutors.
7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falsehood.
7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he
made.
7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall
come down upon his own pate.
7:17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing
praise to the name of the Lord most high.
8:1 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set
thy glory above the heavens.
8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because
of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the
stars, which thou hast ordained;
8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou
visitest him?
8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him
with glory and honour.
8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put
all {things} under his feet:
8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, {and whatsoever} passeth
through the paths of the seas.
8:9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent {is} thy name in all the earth!
9:1 I will praise {thee}, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all
thy marvellous works.
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou
most High.
9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy
presence.
9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne
judging right.
9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast
put out their name for ever and ever.
9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast
destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
9:7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for
judgment.
9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment
to the people in uprightness.
9:9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of
trouble.
9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
9:11 Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people
his doings.
9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth
not the cry of the humble.
9:13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble {which I suffer} of them
that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion:
I will rejoice in thy salvation.
9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which
they hid is their own foot taken.
9:16 The Lord is known {by} the judgment {which} he executeth: the wicked is
snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, {and} all the nations that forget
God.
9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor
shall not {perish} for ever.
9:19 Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy
sight.
9:20 Put them in fear, O Lord: {that} the nations may know themselves {to be
but} men. Selah.
10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? {why} hidest thou {thyself} in times
of trouble?
10:2 The wicked in {his} pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in
the devices that they have imagined.
10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous,
{whom} the Lord abhorreth.
10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek {after
God}: God {is} not in all his thoughts.
10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments {are} far above out of his
sight: {as for} all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for {I shall} never {be}
in adversity.
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and Fraud: under his tongue {is}
mischief and vanity.
10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places
doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch
the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10:10 He croucheth, {and} humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his
strong ones.
10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he
will never see {it}.
10:12 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou
wilt not require {it}.
10:14 Thou hast seen {it}; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite
{it} with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper
of the fatherless.
10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil {man}: seek out his
wickedness {till} thou find none.
10:16 The Lord {is} king for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his
land.
10:17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their
heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may
no more oppress.
11:1 In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee {as} a bird to
your mountain?
11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend {their} bow, they make ready their arrow upon the
string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
11:4 The Lord {is} in his holy temple, the Lord's throne {is} in heaven: his
eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
11:5 The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence
his soul hateth.
11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible
tempest: {this shall be} the portion of their cup.
11:7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold
the upright.
12:1 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among
the children of men.
12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {with} flattering lips
{and} with a double heart do they speak.
12:3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, {and} the tongue that speaketh
proud things:
12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips {are} our own:
who {is} lord over us?
12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I
arise, saith the Lord; I will set {him} in safety {from him that} puffeth at
him.
12:6 The words of the Lord {are} pure words: {as} silver tried in a furnace of
earth, purified seven times.
12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this
generation for ever.
12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide
thy face from me?
13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, {having} sorrow in my heart
daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
13:3 Consider {and} hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the
{sleep of} death;
13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; {and} those that
trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
13:6 I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, {There is} no God. They are corrupt, they
have done abominable works, {there is} none that doeth good.
14:2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there
were any that did understand, {and} seek God.
14:3 They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is}
none that doeth good, no, not one.
14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as}
they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
14:5 There were they in great fear: for God {is} in the generation of the
righteous.
14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord {is} his refuge.
14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel {were come} out of Zion! when the Lord
bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, {and} Israel
shall be glad.
15:1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the
truth in his heart.
15:3 {He that} backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour,
nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear
the Lord. {He that} sweareth to {his own} hurt, and changeth not.
15:5 {He that} putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against
the innocent. He that doeth these {things} shall never be moved.
16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
16:2 {O my soul}, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou {art} my Lord: my goodness
{extendeth} not to thee;
16:3 {But} to the saints that {are} in the earth, and {to} the excellent, in
whom {is} all my delight.
16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that {hasten} after {another} god:
{their} drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into
my lips.
16:5 The Lord {is} the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou
maintainest my lot.
16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant {places}; yea, I have a goodly
heritage.
16:7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct
me in the night seasons.
16:8 I have set the Lord always before me: because {he is} at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall
rest in hope.
16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption.
16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence {is} fulness of joy;
at thy right hand {there are} pleasures for evermore.
17:1 Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, {that
goeth} not out of feigned lips.
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the
things that are equal.
17:3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited {me} in the night; thou
hast tried me, {and} shalt find nothing; I am purposed {that} my mouth shall
not transgress.
17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept {me from}
the paths of the destroyer.
17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, {that} my footsteps slip not.
17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear
unto me, {and hear} my speech.
17:7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand
them which put their trust {in thee} from those that rise up {against them}.
17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, {from} my deadly enemies, {who} compass
me about.
17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing
down to the earth;
17:12 Like as a lion {that} is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion
lurking in secret places.
17:13 Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the
wicked, {which is} thy sword:
17:14 From men {which are} thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, {which
have} their portion in {this} life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid
{treasure}: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their {substance}
to their babes.
17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied,
when I awake, with thy likeness.
18:1 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
18:2 The Lord {is} my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my
strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, {and}
my high tower.
18:3 I will call upon the Lord, {who is worthy} to be praised: so shall I be
saved from mine enemies.
18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid.
18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
18:6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my
voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, {even} into his ears.
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved
and were shaken, because he was wroth.
18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness {was} under his
feet.
18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of
the wind.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him {were}
dark waters {and} thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness {that was} before him his thick clouds passed, hail
{stones} and coals of fire.
18:13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice;
hail {stones} and coals of fire.
18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them.
18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world
were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy
nostrils.
18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for
they were too strong for me.
18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he
delighted in me.
18:20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
18:21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from
my God.
18:22 For all his judgments {were} before me, and I did not put away his
statutes from me.
18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
18:24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man
thou wilt shew thyself upright;
18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt
shew thyself froward.
18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my
darkness.
18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over
a wall.
18:30 {As for} God, his way {is} perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he
{is} a buckler to all those that trust in him.
18:31 For who {is} God save the Lord? or who {is} a rock save our God?
18:32 {It is} God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds' {feet}, and setteth me upon my high places.
18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine
arms.
18:35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand
hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again
till they were consumed.
18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen
under my feet.
18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued
under me those that rose up against me.
18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy
them that hate me.
18:41 They cried, but {there was} none to save {them: even} unto the Lord, but
he answered them not.
18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them
out as the dirt in the streets.
18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; {and} thou hast
made me the head of the heathen: a people {whom} I have not known shall serve
me.
18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall
submit themselves unto me.
18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
18:46 The Lord liveth; and blessed {be} my rock; and let the God of my
salvation be exalted.
18:47 {It is} God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
18:48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those
that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and
sing praises unto thy name.
18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
19:3 {There is} no speech nor language, {where} their voice is not heard.
19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end
of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
19:5 Which {is} as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, {and} rejoiceth as a
strong man to run a race.
19:6 His going forth {is} from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the
ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
19:7 The law of the Lord {is} perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of
the {Lord} is sure, making wise the simple.
19:8 The statutes of the Lord {are} right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment
of the Lord {is} pure, enlightening the eyes.
19:9 The fear of the Lord {is} clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the
Lord {are} true {and} righteous altogether.
19:10 More to be desired {are they} than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: {and} in keeping of them {there}
is great reward.
19:12 Who can understand {his} errors? cleanse thou me from secret {faults}.
19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous {sins}; let them not have
dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the
great transgression.
19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable
in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
20:1 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob
defend thee;
20:2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
20:3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set
up {our} banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
20:6 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his
holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
20:7 Some {trust} in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the
name of the Lord our God.
20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
20:9 Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.
21:1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how
greatly shall he rejoice!
21:2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the
request of his lips. Selah.
21:3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a
crown of pure gold on his head.
21:4 He asked life of thee, {and} thou gavest {it} him, {even} length of days
for ever and ever.
21:5 His glory {is} great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid
upon him.
21:6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding
glad with thy countenance.
21:7 For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High
he shall not be moved.
21:8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out
those that hate thee.
21:9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord
shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among
the children of men.
21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device,
{which} they are not able {to perform}.
21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, {when} thou shalt make
ready {thine arrows} upon thy strings against the face of them.
21:13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: {so} will we sing and
praise thy power.
22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {why art thou so} far from
helping me, {and from} the words of my roaring?
22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night
season, and am not silent.
22:3 But thou {art} holy, {O thou} that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were
not confounded.
22:6 But I {am} a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the
people.
22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake
the head, {saying},
22:8 He trusted on the Lord {that} he would deliver him: let him deliver him,
seeing he delighted in him.
22:9 But thou {art} he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope
{when I was} upon my mother's breasts.
22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou {art} my God from my mother's
belly.
22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble {is} near; for {there is} none to help.
22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong {bulls} of Bashan have beset me
round.
22:13 They gaped upon me {with} their mouths, {as} a ravening and a roaring
lion.
22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart
is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my
jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look {and} stare upon me.
22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
22:19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help
me.
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of
the unicorns.
22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee.
22:23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
22:25 My praise {shall be} of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my
vows before them that fear him.
22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek
him: your heart shall live for ever.
22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all
the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
22:28 For the kingdom {is} the Lord's: and he {is} the governor among the
nations.
22:29 All {they that be} fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go
down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation.
22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that
shall be born, that he hath done {this}.
23:1 The Lord {is} my shepherd; I shall not want.
23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters.
23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his
name's sake.
23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear
no evil: for thou {art} with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou
anointest my head with oil; my cup Runneth over.
23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I
will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
24:1 The earth {is} the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
that dwell therein.
24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy
place?
24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his
soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the
God of his salvation.
24:6 This {is} the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O
Jacob. Selah.
24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors;
and the King of glory shall come in.
24:8 Who {is} this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty
in battle.
24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift {them} up, ye everlasting doors;
and the King of glory shall come in.
24:10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he {is} the King of glory.
Selah.
25:1 Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
25:2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies
triumph over me.
25:3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which
transgress without cause.
25:4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
25:5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou {art} the God of my
salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
25:6 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for
they {have been} ever of old.
25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy
mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.
25:8 Good and upright {is} the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the
way.
25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
25:10 All the paths of the Lord {are} mercy and truth unto such as keep his
covenant and his testimonies.
25:11 For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it {is} great.
25:12 What man {is} he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way
{that} he shall choose.
25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
25:14 The secret of the Lord {is} with them that fear him; and he will shew
them his covenant.
25:15 Mine eyes {are} ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of
the net.
25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I {am} desolate and
afflicted.
25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: {O} bring thou me out of my
distresses.
25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel
hatred.
25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust
in thee.
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
26:1 Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also
in the Lord; {therefore} I shall not slide.
26:2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
26:3 For thy lovingkindness {is} before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy
truth.
26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the
wicked.
26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O
Lord:
26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy
wondrous works.
26:8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine
honour dwelleth.
26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
26:10 In whose hands {is} mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful
unto me.
26:12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the
Lord.
27:1 The Lord {is} my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord {is}
the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
27:2 When the wicked, {even} mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up
my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though
war should rise against me, in this {will} I {be} confident.
27:4 One {thing} have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may
dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of
the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret
of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I
will sing praises unto the Lord.
27:7 Hear, O Lord, {when} I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and
answer me.
27:8 {When thou saidst}, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face,
Lord, will I seek.
27:9 Hide not thy face {far} from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou
hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
27:11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine
enemies.
27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses
are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
27:13 {I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in
the land of the living.
27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine
heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
28:1 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, {if} thou
be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up
my hands toward thy holy oracle.
28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which
speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief {is} in their hearts.
28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of
their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their
desert.
28:5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his
hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
28:6 Blessed {be} the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my
supplications.
28:7 The Lord {is} my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am
helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise
him.
28:8 The Lord {is} their strength, and he {is} the saving strength of his
anointed.
28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift
them up for ever.
29:1 Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength.
29:2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the
beauty of holiness.
29:3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the
Lord {is} upon many waters.
29:4 The voice of the Lord {is} powerful; the voice of the Lord {is} full of
majesty.
29:5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the
cedars of Lebanon.
29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young
unicorn.
29:7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.
29:8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the
wilderness of Kadesh.
29:9 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the
forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of {his} glory.
29:10 The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth king for ever.
29:11 The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his
people with peace.
30:1 I Will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made
my foes to rejoice over me.
30:2 O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
30:3 O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me
alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
30:4 Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance
of his holiness.
30:5 For his anger {endureth but} a moment; in his favour {is} life: weeping
may endure for a night, but joy {cometh} in the morning.
30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
30:7 Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst
hide thy face, {and} I was troubled.
30:8 I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.
30:9 What profit {is there} in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the
dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
30:10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.
30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my
sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
30:12 To the end that {my} glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O
Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
31:1 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in
thy righteousness.
31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for
an house of defence to save me.
31:3 For thou {art} my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead
me, and guide me.
31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou {art}
my strength.
31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of
truth.
31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my
trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet
in a large room.
31:9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with
grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.
31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength
faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my
neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled
from me.
31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was {on} every side: while
they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
31:14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou {art} my God.
31:15 My times {are} in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and
from them that persecute me.
31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for {I} have called upon thee: let the
wicked be ashamed, {and} let them be silent in the grave.
31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly
and contemptuously against the righteous.
31:19 {Oh} how great {is} thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that
fear thee; {which} thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the
sons of men!
31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man:
thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
31:21 Blessed {be} the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a
strong city.
31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless
thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
31:23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: {for} the Lord preserveth the
faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope
in the Lord.
32:1 Blessed {is he whose} transgression {is} forgiven, {whose} sin {is}
covered.
32:2 Blessed {is} the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in
whose spirit {there is} no guile.
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day
long.
32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into
the drought of summer. Selah.
32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said,
I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity
of my sin. Selah.
32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou
mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh
unto him.
32:7 Thou {art} my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou
shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will
guide thee with mine eye.
32:9 Be ye not as the horse, {or} as the mule, {which} have no understanding:
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
32:10 Many sorrows {shall be} to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord,
mercy shall compass him about.
32:11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all {ye
that are} upright in heart.
33:1 Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: {for} praise is comely for the
upright.
33:2 Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and {an}
instrument of ten strings.
33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
33:4 For the word of the Lord {is} right; and all his works {are done} in
truth.
33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of
the Lord.
33:6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by
the breath of his mouth.
33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the
depth in storehouses.
33:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world
stand in awe of him.
33:9 For he spake, and it was {done}; he commanded, and it stood fast.
33:10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the
devices of the people of none effect.
33:11 The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to
all generations.
33:12 Blessed {is} the nation whose God {is} the Lord; {and} the people {whom}
he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
33:13 The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of
the earth.
33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not
delivered by much strength.
33:17 An horse {is} a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver {any} by
his great strength.
33:18 Behold, the eye of the Lord {is} upon them that fear him, upon them that
hope in his mercy;
33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
33:20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he {is} our help and our shield.
33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy
name.
33:22 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
34:1 I Will bless the Lord at all times: his praise {shall} continually {be} in
my mouth.
34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear {thereof},
and be glad.
34:3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
34:4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not
ashamed.
34:6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard {him}, and saved him out of all
his troubles.
34:7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and
delivereth them.
34:8 O taste and see that the Lord {is} good: blessed {is} the man {that}
trusteth in him.
34:9 O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for {there is} no want to them that fear
him.
34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord
shall not want any good {thing}.
34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the
Lord.
34:12 What man {is he that} desireth life, {and} loveth {many} days, that he
may see good?
34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
34:15 The eyes of the Lord {are} upon the righteous, and his ears {are open}
unto their cry.
34:16 The face of the Lord {is} against them that do evil, to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.
34:17 {The righteous} cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all
their troubles.
34:18 The Lord {is} nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such
as be of a contrite spirit.
34:19 Many {are} the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him
out of them all.
34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be
desolate.
34:22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust
in him shall be desolate.
35:1 Plead {my cause}, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against
them that fight against me.
35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop {the way} against them that persecute
me: say unto my soul, I {am} thy salvation.
35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them
be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase
{them}.
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord
persecute them.
35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which}
without cause they have digged for my soul.
35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath
hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.
35:10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who {is} like unto thee, which deliverest
the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from
him that spoileth him?
35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge {things} that I knew
not.
35:12 They rewarded me evil for good {to} the spoiling of my soul.
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing {was} sackcloth: I
humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
35:14 I behaved myself as though {he had been} my friend {or} brother: I bowed
down heavily, as one that mourneth {for his} mother.
35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together:
{yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it}
not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not:
35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their
teeth.
35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions,
my darling from the lions.
35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee
among much people.
35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: {neither}
let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them
that are} quiet in the land.
35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, {and} said, Aha, aha, our
eye hath seen {it}.
35:22 {This} thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from
me.
35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, {even} unto my cause, my God
and my Lord.
35:24 Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not
rejoice over me.
35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not
say, We have swallowed him up.
35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at
mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify
{themselves} against me.
35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea,
let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the
prosperity of his servant.
35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness {and} of thy praise all
the day long.
36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, {that there is} no
fear of God before his eyes.
36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to
be hateful.
36:3 The words of his mouth {are} iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be
wise, {and} to do good.
36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way {that is}
not good; he abhorreth not evil.
36:5 Thy mercy, O Lord, {is} in the heavens; {and} thy faithfulness {reacheth}
unto the clouds.
36:6 Thy righteousness {is} like the great mountains; thy judgments {are} a
great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
36:7 How excellent {is} thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of
men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou
shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
36:9 For with thee {is} the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy
righteousness to the upright in heart.
36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the
wicked remove me.
36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall
not be able to rise.
37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the
workers of iniquity.
37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green
herb.
37:3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; {so} shalt thou dwell in the land, and
verily thou shalt be fed.
37:4 Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of
thine heart.
37:5 Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring {it}
to pass.
37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment
as the noonday.
37:7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of
him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices
to pass.
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do
evil.
37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they
shall inherit the earth.
37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked {shall} not {be}: yea, thou shalt
diligently consider his place, and it {shall} not {be}.
37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the
abundance of peace.
37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his
teeth.
37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast
down the poor and needy, {and} to slay such as be of upright conversation.
37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be
broken.
37:16 A little that a righteous man hath {is} better than the riches of many
wicked.
37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the
righteous.
37:18 The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be
for ever.
37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine
they shall be satisfied.
37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord {shall be} as
the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth
mercy, and giveth.
37:22 For {such as be} blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and {they that
be} cursed of him shall be cut off.
37:23 The steps of a {good} man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in
his way.
37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth
{him with} his hand.
37:25 I have been young, and {now} am old; yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
37:26 {He is} ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed {is} blessed.
37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
37:28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are
preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of
judgment.
37:31 The law of his God {is} in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
37:33 The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is
judged.
37:34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit
the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see {it}.
37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green
bay tree.
37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he {was} not: yea, I sought him, but he
could not be found.
37:37 Mark the perfect {man}, and behold the upright: for the end of {that} man
{is} peace.
37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked
shall be cut off.
37:39 But the salvation of the righteous {is} of the Lord: {he is} their
strength in the time of trouble.
37:40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them
from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
38:1 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
38:3 {There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is
there any} rest in my bones because of my sin.
38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are
too heavy for me.
38:5 My wounds stink {and} are corrupt because of my foolishness.
38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome {disease}: and {there is} no
soundness in my flesh.
38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness
of my heart.
38:9 Lord, all my desire {is} before thee; and my groaning is not hid from
thee.
38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes,
it also is gone from me.
38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand
afar off.
38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares {for me}: and they that seek
my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
38:13 But I, as a deaf {man}, heard not; and {I was} as a dumb man {that}
openeth not his mouth.
38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth {are} no
reproofs.
38:15 For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
38:16 For I said, {Hear me}, lest {otherwise} they should rejoice over me: when
my foot slippeth, they magnify {themselves} against me.
38:17 For I {am} ready to halt, and my sorrow {is} continually before me.
38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
38:19 But mine enemies {are} lively, {and} they are strong: and they that hate
me wrongfully are multiplied.
38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I
follow {the thing that} good {is}.
38:21 Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.
38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will
keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, {even} from good; and my sorrow
was stirred.
39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: {then}
spake I with my tongue,
39:4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it {is:
that} I may know how frail I {am}.
39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as
nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity.
Selah.
39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in
vain: he heapeth up {riches}, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope {is} in thee.
39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the
foolish.
39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst {it}.
39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his
beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah.
39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at
my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers
{were}.
39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no
more.
40:1 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my
cry.
40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and
set my feet upon a rock, {and} established my goings.
40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, {even} praise unto our God: many
shall see it, {and} fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
40:4 Blessed {is} that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not
the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
40:5 Many, O Lord my God, {are} thy wonderful works {which} thou hast done, and
thy thoughts {which are} to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto
thee: {if} I would declare and speak {of them}, they are more than can be
numbered.
40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened:
burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book {it is} written of me,
40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law {is} within my heart.
40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not
refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy
faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy
truth from the great congregation.
40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken
hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of
mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
40:13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.
40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to
destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha,
aha.
40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as
love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.
40:17 But I {am} poor and needy; {yet} the Lord thinketh upon me: thou {art} my
help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
41:1 Blessed {is} he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in
time of trouble.
41:2 The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; {and} he shall be blessed
upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
41:3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make
all his bed in his sickness.
41:4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against
thee.
41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
41:6 And if he come to see {me}, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth
iniquity to itself; {when} he goeth abroad, he telleth {it}.
41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my
hurt.
41:8 An evil disease, {say they}, cleaveth fast unto him: and {now} that he
lieth he shall rise up no more.
41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my
bread, hath lifted up {his} heel against me.
41:10 But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may
requite them.
41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not
triumph over me.
41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before
thy face for ever.
41:13 Blessed {be} the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting.
Amen, and Amen.
42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,
O God.
42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and
appear before God?
42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto
me, Where {is} thy God?
42:4 When I remember these {things}, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone
with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy
and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and {why} art thou disquieted in me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for {the} help of his countenance.
42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee
from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and
thy billows are gone over me.
42:8 {Yet} the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the
night his song {shall be} with me, {and} my prayer unto the God of my life.
42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
42:10 {As} with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say
daily unto me, Where {is} thy God?
42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, {who is} the health of my
countenance, and my God.
43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver
me from the deceitful and unjust man.
43:2 For thou {art} the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me
unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon
the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, {who is} the health of my countenance,
and my God.
44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, {what} work
thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
44:2 {How} thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them;
{how} thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did
their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of
thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread
them under that rise up against us.
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that
hated us.
44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our
armies.
44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil
for themselves.
44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep {appointed} for meat; and hast scattered us
among the heathen.
44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase {thy wealth} by
their price.
44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to
them that are round about us.
44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among
the people.
44:15 My confusion {is} continually before me, and the shame of my face hath
covered me,
44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the
enemy and avenger.
44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we
dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy
way;
44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us
with the shadow of death.
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a
strange God;
44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep
for the slaughter.
44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast {us} not off for ever.
44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, {and} forgettest our affliction and our
oppression?
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the
earth.
44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have
made touching the king: my tongue {is} the pen of a ready writer.
45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips:
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
45:3 Gird thy sword upon {thy} thigh, O {most} mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty.
45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness {and}
righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
45:5 Thine arrows {are} sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; {whereby} the
people fall under thee.
45:6 Thy throne, O God, {is} for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom {is}
a right sceptre.
45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
45:8 All thy garments {smell} of myrrh, and aloes, {and} cassia, out of the
ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
45:9 Kings' daughters {were} among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand
did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also
thine own people, and thy father's house;
45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he {is} thy Lord; and
worship thou him.
45:12 And the daughter of Tyre {shall be there} with a gift; {even} the rich
among the people shall intreat thy favour.
45:13 The king's daughter {is} all glorious within: her clothing {is} of
wrought gold.
45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins
her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into
the king's palace.
45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make
princes in all the earth.
45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall
the people praise thee for ever and ever.
46:1 God {is} our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
46:3 {Though} the waters thereof roar {and} be troubled, {though} the mountains
shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4 {There is} a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,
the holy {place} of the tabernacles of the most High.
46:5 God {is} in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her,
{and that} right early.
46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the
earth melted.
46:7 The Lord of hosts {is} with us; the God of Jacob {is} our refuge. Selah.
46:8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the
earth.
46:9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow,
and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
46:10 Be still, and know that I {am} God: I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11 The Lord of hosts {is} with us; the God of Jacob {is} our refuge. Selah.
47:1 O Clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of
triumph.
47:2 For the Lord most high {is} terrible; {he is} a great King over all the
earth.
47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he
loved. Selah.
47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing
praises.
47:7 For God {is} the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
understanding.
47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his
holiness.
47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, {even} the people of the
God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth {belong} unto God: he is greatly
exalted.
48:1 Great {is} the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,
{in} the mountain of his holiness.
48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, {is} mount Zion, {on}
the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
48:5 They saw {it, and} so they marvelled; they were troubled, {and} hasted
away.
48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.
48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the
city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
48:10 According to thy name, O God, so {is} thy praise unto the ends of the
earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of
thy judgments.
48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell {it} to
the generation following.
48:14 For this God {is} our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide {even}
unto death.
49:1 Hear this, all {ye} people; give ear, all {ye} inhabitants of the world:
49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart {shall be}
of understanding.
49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the
harp.
49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, {when} the iniquity of my
heels shall compass me about?
49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of
their riches;
49:7 None {of them} can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a
ransom for him:
49:8 (For the redemption of their soul {is} precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
49:9 That he should still live for ever, {and} not see corruption.
49:10 For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish
person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
49:11 Their inward thought {is, that} their houses {shall continue} for ever,
{and} their dwelling places to all generations; they call {their} lands after
their own names.
49:12 Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts
{that} perish.
49:13 This their way {is} their folly: yet their posterity approve their
sayings. Selah.
49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the
upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall
consume in the grave from their dwelling.
49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall
receive me. Selah.
49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is
increased;
49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not
descend after him.
49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and {men} will praise thee,
when thou doest well to thyself.
49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
49:20 Man {that is} in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts {that}
perish.
50:1 The mighty God, {even} the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from
the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before
him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may
judge his people.
50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me
by sacrifice.
50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is {judge}
himself. Selah.
50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against
thee: I {am} God, {even} thy God.
50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings {to have
been} continually before me.
50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, {nor} he goats out of thy folds.
50:10 For every beast of the forest {is} mine, {and} the cattle upon a thousand
hills.
50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
{are} mine.
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world {is} mine, and the
fulness thereof.
50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify me.
50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my
statutes, or {that} thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been
partaker with adulterers.
50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
50:20 Thou sittest {and} speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine
own mother's son.
50:21 These {things} hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I
was altogether {such an one} as thyself: {but} I will reprove thee, and set
{them} in order before thine eyes.
50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear {you} in pieces, and
{there be} none to deliver.
50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his
conversation {aright} will {I} shew the salvation of God.
51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto
the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin {is} ever before me.
51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done {this} evil in thy sight:
that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, {and} be clear when thou
Judgest.
51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden {part}
thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.
51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; {that} the bones {which} thou hast
broken may rejoice.
51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me {with thy} free
spirit.
51:13 {Then} will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be
converted unto thee.
51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: {and}
my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give {it}: thou delightest
not in burnt offering.
51:17 The sacrifices of God {are} a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with
burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon
thine altar.
52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God
{endureth} continually.
52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; {and} lying rather than to speak
righteousness. Selah.
52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O {thou} deceitful tongue.
52:5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall {take} thee away, and
pluck thee out of {thy} dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the
living. Selah.
52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
52:7 Lo, {this is} the man {that} made not God his strength; but trusted in the
abundance of his riches, {and} strengthened himself in his wickedness.
52:8 But I {am} like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the
mercy of God for ever and ever.
52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done {it}: and I will wait
on thy name; for {it is} good before thy saints.
53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, {There is} no God. Corrupt are they, and
have done abominable iniquity: {there is} none that doeth good.
53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were
{any} that did understand, that did seek God.
53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; {there
is} none that doeth good, no, not one.
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they
eat bread: they have not called upon God.
53:5 There were they in great fear, {where} no fear was: for God hath scattered
the bones of him that encampeth {against} thee: thou hast put {them} to shame,
because God hath despised them.
53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were {come out} of Zion! When God bringeth
back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and {Israel} shall be
glad.
54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul:
they have not set God before them. Selah.
54:4 Behold, God {is} mine helper: the Lord {is} with them that uphold my soul.
54:5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
54:6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O Lord; for {it
is} good.
54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen {his
desire} upon mine enemies.
55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
55:2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the
wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen
upon me.
55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed
me.
55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! {for then} would I fly away,
and be at rest.
55:7 Lo, {then} would I wander far off, {and} remain in the wilderness. Selah.
55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm {and} tempest.
55:9 Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and
strife in the city.
55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and
sorrow {are} in the midst of it.
55:11 Wickedness {is} in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from
her streets.
55:12 For {it was} not an enemy {that} reproached me; then I could have borne
{it}: neither {was it} he that hated me {that} did magnify {himself} against
me; then I would have hid myself from him:
55:13 But {it was} thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
55:14 We took sweet counsel together, {and} walked unto the house of God in
company.
55:15 Let death seize upon them, {and} let them go down quick into hell: for
wickedness {is} in their dwellings, {and} among them.
55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.
55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he
shall hear my voice.
55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle {that was} against me:
for there were many with me.
55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah.
Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath
broken his covenant.
55:21 {The words} of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war {was} in his
heart: his words were softer than oil, yet {were} they drawn swords.
55:22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never
suffer the righteous to be moved.
55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction:
bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust
in thee.
56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me.
56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow {me} up: for {they be} many that fight
against me, O thou most High.
56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear
what flesh can do unto me.
56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts {are} against me for
evil.
56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps,
when they wait for my soul.
56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in {thine} anger cast down the people, O
God.
56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: {are they}
not in thy book?
56:9 When I cry {unto thee}, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know;
for God {is} for me.
56:10 In God will I praise {his} word: in the Lord will I praise {his} word.
56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
56:12 Thy vows {are} upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: {wilt} not {thou deliver} my
feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in
thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until {these}
calamities be overpast.
57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth {all things} for
me.
57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me {from} the reproach of him that
would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
57:4 My soul {is} among lions: {and} I lie {even among} them that are set on
fire, {even} the sons of men, whose teeth {are} spears and arrows, and their
tongue a sharp sword.
57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; {let} thy glory {be} above all
the earth.
57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have
digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen {themselves}.
Selah.
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I {myself} will awake early.
57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among
the nations.
57:10 For thy mercy {is} great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: {let} thy glory {be} above all
the earth.
58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O
ye sons of men?
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in
the earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be
born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison {is} like the poison of a serpent: {they are} like the deaf
adder {that} stoppeth her ear;
58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the
young lions, O Lord.
58:7 Let them melt away as waters {which} run continually: {when} he bendeth
{his bow to shoot} his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
58:8 As a snail {which} melteth, let {every one of them} pass away: {like} the
untimely birth of a woman, {that} they may not see the sun.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a
whirlwind, both living, and in {his} wrath.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily {there is} a reward for the righteous:
verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up
against me.
59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me;
not {for} my transgression, nor {for} my sin, O Lord.
59:4 They run and prepare themselves without {my} fault: awake to help me, and
behold.
59:5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all
the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about
the city.
59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords {are} in their lips: for
who, {say they}, doth hear?
59:8 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in
derision.
59:9 {Because of} his strength will I wait upon thee: for God {is} my defence.
59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see {my desire}
upon mine enemies.
59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and
bring them down, O Lord our shield.
59:12 {For} the sin of their mouth {and} the words of their lips let them even
be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying {which} they speak.
59:13 Consume {them} in wrath, consume {them}, that they {may} not {be}: and
let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
59:14 And at evening let them return; {and} let them make a noise like a dog,
and go round about the city.
59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
satisfied.
59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the
morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God {is} my defence, and {the}
God of my mercy.
60:1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been
displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the
breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the
wine of astonishment.
60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed
because of the truth. Selah.
60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save {with} thy right hand, and hear
me.
60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7 Gilead {is} mine, and Manasseh {is} mine; Ephraim also is {the} strength
of mine head; Judah {is} my lawgiver;
60:8 Moab {is} my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia,
triumph thou because of me.
60:9 Who will bring me {into} the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
60:10 {Wilt} not thou, O God, {which} hadst cast us off? and {thou}, O God,
{which} didst not go out with our armies?
60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain {is} the help of man.
60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he {it is that} shall tread down
our enemies.
61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is
overwhelmed: lead me to the rock {that} is higher than I.
61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, {and} a strong tower from the enemy.
61:4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy
wings. Selah.
61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given {me} the heritage of
those that fear thy name.
61:6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: {and} his years as many generations.
61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, {which} may
preserve him.
61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my
vows.
62:1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him {cometh} my salvation.
62:2 He only {is} my rock and my salvation; {he is} my defence; I shall not be
greatly moved.
62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of
you: as a bowing wall {shall ye be, and as} a tottering fence.
62:4 They only consult to cast {him} down from his excellency: they delight in
lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation {is} from him.
62:6 He only {is} my rock and my salvation: {he is} my defence; I shall not be
moved.
62:7 In God {is} my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, {and} my
refuge, {is} in God.
62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God
{is} a refuge for us. Selah.
62:9 Surely men of low degree {are} vanity, {and} men of high degree {are} a
lie: to be laid in the balance, they {are} altogether {lighter} than vanity.
62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches
increase, set not your heart {upon them}.
62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power {belongeth}
unto God.
62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, {belongeth} mercy: for thou renderest to every
man according to his work.
63:1 O God, thou {art} my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for
thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so {as} I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
63:3 Because thy lovingkindness {is} better than life, my lips shall praise
thee.
63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as {with} marrow and fatness; and my mouth
shall praise {thee} with joyful lips:
63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, {and} meditate on thee in the {night}
watches.
63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will
I rejoice.
63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
63:9 But those {that} seek my soul, to destroy {it}, shall go into the lower
parts of the earth.
63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall
glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the
enemy.
64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of
the workers of iniquity:
64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, {and} bend {their bows to shoot} their
arrows, {even} bitter words:
64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at
him, and fear not.
64:5 They encourage themselves {in} an evil matter: they commune of laying
snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the
inward {thought} of every one {of them}, and the heart, {is} deep.
64:7 But God shall shoot at them {with} an arrow; suddenly shall they be
wounded.
64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see
them shall flee away.
64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall
wisely consider of his doing.
64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all
the upright in heart shall glory.
65:1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be
performed.
65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: {as for} our transgressions, thou shalt
purge them away.
65:4 Blessed {is the man whom} thou choosest, and causest to approach {unto
thee, that} he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness
of thy house, {even} of thy holy temple.
65:5 {By} terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our
salvation; {who art} the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them
that are afar off {upon} the sea:
65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; {being} girded with
power:
65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the
tumult of the people.
65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou
makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
65:9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with
the river of God, {which} is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou
hast so provided for it.
65:10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows
thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
65:12 They drop {upon} the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills
rejoice on every side.
65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over
with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
66:1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
66:3 Say unto God, How terrible {art thou in} thy works! through the greatness
of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall
sing {to} thy name. Selah.
66:5 Come and see the works of God: {he is} terrible {in his} doing toward the
children of men.
66:6 He turned the sea into dry {land}: they went through the flood on foot:
there did we rejoice in him.
66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the
rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
66:12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and
through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy {place}.
66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in
trouble.
66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of
rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
66:16 Come {and} hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath
done for my soul.
66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear {me}:
66:19 {But} verily God hath heard {me}; he hath attended to the voice of my
prayer.
66:20 Blessed {be} God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy
from me.
67:1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; {and} cause his face to shine upon
us; Selah.
67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
67:3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the
people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
67:5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
67:6 {Then} shall the earth yield her increase; {and} God, {even} our own God,
shall bless us.
67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him
flee before him.
68:2 As smoke is driven away, {so} drive {them} away: as wax melteth before the
fire, {so} let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them
exceedingly rejoice.
68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the
heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, {is} God in his
holy habitation.
68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are
bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry {land}.
68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march
through the wilderness; Selah:
68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: {even}
Sinai itself {was moved} at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine
inheritance, when it was weary.
68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy
goodness for the poor.
68:11 The Lord gave the word: great {was} the company of those that published
{it}.
68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the
spoil.
68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, {yet shall ye be as} the wings of a
dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was {white} as snow in
Salmon.
68:15 The hill of God {is as} the hill of Bashan; an high hill {as} the hill of
Bashan.
68:16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? {this is} the hill {which} God desireth to
dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell {in it} for ever.
68:17 The chariots of God {are} twenty thousand, {even} thousands of angels:
the Lord {is} among them, {as in} Sinai, in the holy {place}.
68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast
received gifts for men; yea, {for} the rebellious also, that the Lord God might
dwell {among them}.
68:19 Blessed {be} the Lord, {who} daily loadeth us {with benefits, even} the
God of our salvation. Selah.
68:20 {He that is} our God {is} the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord
{belong} the issues from death.
68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, {and} the hairy scalp of
such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring {my people}
again from the depths of the sea:
68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of {thine} enemies, {and} the
tongue of thy dogs in the same.
68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God; {even} the goings of my God, my King,
in the sanctuary.
68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments {followed} after;
among {them were} the damsels playing with timbrels.
68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, {even} the Lord, from the fountain of
Israel.
68:27 There {is} little Benjamin {with} their ruler, the princes of Judah {and}
their council, the princes of Zebulun, {and} the princes of Naphtali.
68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou
hast wrought for us.
68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the
calves of the people, {till every one} submit himself with pieces of silver:
scatter thou the people {that} delight in war.
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her
hands unto God.
68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord;
Selah:
68:33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, {which were} of old; lo,
he doth send out his voice, {and that} a mighty voice.
68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency {is} over Israel, and his
strength is {in} the clouds.
68:35 O God, {thou art} terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel {is}
he that giveth strength and power unto {his} people. Blessed {be} God.
69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto {my} soul.
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where {there is} no standing: I am come into deep
waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait
for my God.
69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head:
they that would destroy me, {being} mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I
restored {that} which I took not away.
69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
69:6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my
sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
children.
69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them
that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
69:10 When I wept, {and chastened} my soul with fasting, that was to my
reproach.
69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I {was} the song of the
drunkards.
69:13 But as for me, my prayer {is} unto thee, O Lord, {in} an acceptable time:
O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from
them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up,
and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness {is} good: turn unto me according
to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me
speedily.
69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, {and} redeem it: deliver me because of mine
enemies.
69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine
adversaries {are} all before thee.
69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked
{for some to take pity, but {there was} none; and for comforters, but I found
none.
69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar
to drink.
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and {that which should have
been} for {their} welfare, {let it become} a trap.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins
continually to shake.
69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take
hold of them.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; {and} let none dwell in their tents.
69:26 For they persecute {him} whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the
grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy
righteousness.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written
with the righteous.
69:29 But I {am} poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on
high.
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving.
69:31 {This} also shall please the Lord better than an ox {or} bullock that
hath horns and hoofs.
69:32 The humble shall see {this, and} be glad: and your heart shall live that
seek God.
69:33 For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that
moveth therein.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may
dwell there, and have it in possession.
69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his
name shall dwell therein.
70:1 {Make haste}, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.
70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be
turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as
love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
70:5 But I {am} poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou {art} my help
and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.
71:1 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear
unto me, and save me.
71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou
hast given commandment to save me; for thou {art} my rock and my fortress.
71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of
the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5 For thou {art} my hope, O Lord God: {thou art} my trust from my youth.
71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out
of my mother's bowels: my praise {shall be} continually of thee.
71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou {art} my strong refuge.
71:8 Let my mouth be filled {with} thy praise {and with} thy honour all the
day.
71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength
faileth.
71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul
take counsel together,
71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for {there is}
none to deliver {him}.
71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
71:13 Let them be confounded {and} consumed that are adversaries to my soul;
let them be covered with {reproach} and dishonour that seek my hurt.
71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness {and} thy salvation all the
day; for I know not the numbers {thereof}.
71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy
righteousness, even {of} thine only.
71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared
thy wondrous works.
71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I
have shewed thy strength unto {this} generation, {and} thy power to every one
{that} is to come.
71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, {is} very high, who hast done great
things: O God, who {is} like unto thee!
71:20 {Thou}, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me
again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, {even} thy truth, O my God:
unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy one of Israel.
71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which
thou hast redeemed.
71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they
are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's
son.
72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by
righteousness.
72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the
needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all
generations.
72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers {that} water
the earth.
72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long
as the moon endureth.
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the
ends of the earth.
72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies
shall lick the dust.
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of
Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and {him}
that hath no helper.
72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall
their blood be in his sight.
72:15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer
also shall be made for him continually; {and} daily shall he be praised.
72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the
mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they {of} the city
shall flourish like grass of the earth.
72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as
the sun: and men {shall} be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
72:18 Blessed {be} the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous
things.
72:19 And blessed {be} his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be
filled {with} his glory; Amen, and Amen.
72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
73:1 Truly God {is} good to Israel, {even} to such as are of a clean heart.
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, {when} I saw the prosperity of the
wicked.
73:4 For {there are} no bands in their death: but their strength {is} firm.
73:5 They {are} not in trouble {as other} men; neither are they plagued like
{other} men.
73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them
{as} a garment.
73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly {concerning} oppression: they speak
loftily.
73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through
the earth.
73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full {cup} are wrung
out to them.
73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
73:12 Behold, these {are} the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase
{in} riches.
73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart {in} vain, and washed my hands in
innocency.
73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend {against} the
generation of thy children.
73:16 When I thought to know this, it {was} too painful for me;
73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; {then} understood I their end.
73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down
into destruction.
73:19 How are they {brought} into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly
consumed with terrors.
73:20 As a dream when {one} awaketh; {so}, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou
shalt despise their image.
73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
73:22 So foolish {was} I, and ignorant: I was {as} a beast before thee.
73:23 Nevertheless I {am} continually with thee: thou hast holden {me} by my
right hand.
73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me {to}
glory.
73:25 Whom have I in heaven {but thee}? and {there is} none upon earth {that} I
desire beside thee.
73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: {but} God {is} the strength of my heart,
and my portion for ever.
73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed
all them that go a whoring from thee.
73:28 But {it is} good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the
Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.
74:1 O God, why hast thou cast {us} off for ever? {why} doth thine anger smoke
against the sheep of thy pasture?
74:2 Remember thy congregation, {which} thou hast purchased of old; the rod of
thine inheritance, {which} thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou
hast dwelt.
74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; {even} all {that} the
enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their
ensigns {for} signs.
74:5 {A man} was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick
trees.
74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and
hammers.
74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled {by casting
down} the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned
up all the synagogues of God in the land.
74:9 We see not our signs: {there is} no more any prophet: neither {is there}
among us any that knoweth how long.
74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme
thy name for ever?
74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck {it} out of thy
bosom.
74:12 For God {is} my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the
dragons in the waters.
74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, {and} gavest him {to be}
meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty
rivers.
74:16 The day {is} thine, the night also {is} thine: thou hast prepared the
light and the sun.
74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and
winter.
74:18 Remember this, {that} the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and {that} the
foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude {of the
wicked}: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full
of the habitations of cruelty.
74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy
name.
74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man
reproacheth thee daily.
74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up
against thee increaseth continually.
75:1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, {unto thee} do we give thanks: for
{that} thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the
pillars of it. Selah.
75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up
the horn:
75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak {not with} a stiff neck.
75:6 For promotion {cometh} neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from
the south.
75:7 But God {is} the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
75:8 For in the hand of the Lord {there is} a cup, and the wine is red; it is
full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the
wicked of the earth shall wring {them} out, {and} drink {them}.
75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; {but} the horns of the
righteous shall be exalted.
76:1 In Judah {is} God known: his name {is} great in Israel.
76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
76:3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the
battle. Selah.
76:4 Thou {art} more glorious {and} excellent than the mountains of prey.
76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the
men of might have found their hands.
76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a
dead sleep.
76:7 Thou, {even} thou, {art} to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when
once thou art angry?
76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and
was still,
76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt
thou restrain.
76:11 Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God: let all that be round about him
bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: {he is} terrible to the kings of
the earth.
77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, {even} unto God with my voice; and he gave
ear unto me.
77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and
ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was
overwhelmed. Selah.
77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart:
and my spirit made diligent search.
77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth {his} promise fail for evermore?
77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender
mercies? Selah.
77:10 And I said, This {is} my infirmity: {but I will remember} the years of
the right hand of the most High.
77:11 I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders
of old.
77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
77:13 Thy way, O God, {is} in the sanctuary: who {is so} great a God as {our}
God?
77:14 Thou {art} the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength
among the people.
77:15 Thou hast with {thine} arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and
Joseph. Selah.
77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the
depths also were troubled.
77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows
also went abroad.
77:18 The voice of thy thunder {was} in the heaven: the lightnings lightened
the world: the earth trembled and shook.
77:19 Thy way {is} in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy
footsteps are not known.
77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
78:1 Give ear, O my people, {to} my law: incline your ears to the words of my
mouth.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
78:4 We will not hide {them} from their children, shewing to the generation to
come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he
hath done.
78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their
children:
78:6 That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which}
should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:
78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments:
78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a
generation {that} set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast
with God.
78:9 The children of Ephraim, {being} armed, {and} carrying bows, turned back
in the day of battle.
78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of
Egypt, {in} the field of Zoan.
78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the
waters to stand as an heap.
78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a
light of fire.
78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave {them} drink as {out of}
the great depths.
78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down
like rivers.
78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the
wilderness.
78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the
wilderness?
78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams
overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
78:21 Therefore the Lord heard {this}, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled
against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of
heaven,
78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the
corn of heaven.
78:25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought
in the south wind.
78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the
sand of the sea:
78:28 And he let {it} fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
habitations.
78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
78:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat {was} yet
in their mouths,
78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote
down the chosen {men} of Israel.
78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in
trouble.
78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired
early after God.
78:35 And they remembered that God {was} their rock, and the high God their
redeemer.
78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto
him with their tongues.
78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his
covenant.
78:38 But he, {being} full of compassion, forgave {their} iniquity, and
destroyed {them} not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not
stir up all his wrath.
78:39 For he remembered that they {were but} flesh; a wind that passeth away,
and cometh not again.
78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, {and} grieve him in the
desert!
78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of
Israel.
78:42 They remembered not his hand, {nor} the day when he delivered them from
the enemy.
78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of
Zoan.
78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could
not drink.
78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs,
which destroyed them.
78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto
the locust.
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
78:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts.
78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation,
and trouble, by sending evil angels {among them}.
78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave
their life over to the pestilence;
78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of {their} strength in
the tabernacles of Ham:
78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the
wilderness like a flock.
78:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, {even to} this
mountain, {which} his right hand had purchased.
78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance
by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his
testimonies:
78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were
turned aside like a deceitful bow.
78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to
jealousy with their graven images.
78:59 When God heard {this}, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent {which} he placed
among men;
78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's
hand.
78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his
inheritance.
78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to
marriage.
78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, {and} like a mighty man that
shouteth by reason of wine.
78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual
reproach.
78:67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of
Ephraim:
78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high {palaces}, like the earth which he
hath established for ever.
78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
78:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his
people, and Israel his inheritance.
78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them
by the skilfulness of his hands.
79:1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have
they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
79:2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given {to be} meat unto the
fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and {there
was} none to bury {them}.
79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them
that are round about us.
79:5 How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like
fire?
79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the
kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies
speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver
us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where {is} their God? let him be known
among the heathen in our sight {by} the revenging of the blood of thy servants
{which is} shed.
79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the
greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
79:12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach,
wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
79:13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever:
we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest {between} the cherubims, shine forth.
80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come
and {save} us.
80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
80:4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy
people?
80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink
in great measure.
80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among
themselves.
80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and
planted it.
80:9 Thou preparedst {room} before it, and didst cause it to take deep root,
and it filled the land.
80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
{were like} the goodly cedars.
80:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
80:12 Why hast thou {then} broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass
by the way do pluck her?
80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field
doth devour it.
80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and
behold, and visit this vine;
80:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch {that}
thou madest strong for thyself.
80:16 {It is} burned with fire, it {is} cut down: they perish at the rebuke of
thy countenance.
80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man
{whom} thou madest strong for thyself.
80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy
name.
80:19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob.
81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the
psaltery.
81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn
feast day.
81:4 For this {was} a statute for Israel, {and} a law of the God of Jacob.
81:5 This he ordained in Joseph {for} a testimony, when he went out through the
land of Egypt: {where} I heard a language {that} I understood not.
81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the
pots.
81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the
secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt
hearken unto me;
81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any
strange god.
81:10 I {am} the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their
own counsels.
81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, {and} Israel had walked in my
ways!
81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against
their adversaries.
81:15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but
their time should have endured for ever.
81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey
out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah.
82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid {them} out of the hand of the wicked.
82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all
the foundations of the earth are out of course.
82:6 I have said, Ye {are} gods; and all of you {are} children of the most
High.
82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted
up the head.
83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against
thy hidden ones.
83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from {being} a nation; that
the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate
against thee:
83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of
Tyre;
83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of lot.
Selah.
83:9 Do unto them as {unto} the Midianites; as {to} Sisera, as to Jabin, at the
brook of Kison:
83:10 {Which} perished at Endor: they became {as} dung for the earth.
83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as
Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on
fire;
83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to
shame, and perish:
83:18 That {men} may know that thou, whose name alone {is} Jehovah, {art} the
most high over all the earth.
84:1 How amiable {are} thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart
and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young, {even} thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and
my God.
84:4 Blessed {are} they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising
thee. Selah.
84:5 Blessed {is} the man whose strength {is} in thee; in whose heart {are} the
ways {of them}.
84:6 {Who} passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also
filleth the pools.
84:7 They go from strength to strength, {every one of them} in Zion appeareth
before God.
84:8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
84:10 For a day in thy courts {is} better than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
84:11 For the Lord God {is} a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and
glory: no good {thing} will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
84:12 O Lord of hosts, blessed {is} the man that trusteth in thee.
85:1 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the
captivity of Jacob.
85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their
sin. Selah.
85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned {thyself} from the
fierceness of thine anger.
85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all
generations?
85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
85:7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
85:8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his
people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
85:9 Surely his salvation {is} nigh them that fear him; that glory {may dwell}
in our land.
85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed
each other.
85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down
from heaven.
85:12 Yea, the Lord shall give {that which is} good; and our land shall yield
her increase.
85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us {in} the way of his
steps.
86:1 Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I {am} poor and needy.
86:2 Preserve my soul; for I {am} holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that
trusteth in thee.
86:3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my
soul.
86:5 For thou, Lord, {art} good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy
unto all them that call upon thee.
86:6 Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
supplications.
86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
86:8 Among the gods {there is} none like unto thee, O Lord; neither {are there
any works} like unto thy works.
86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O
Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
86:10 For thou {art} great, and doest wondrous things: thou {art} God alone.
86:11 Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to
fear thy name.
86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify
thy name for evermore.
86:13 For great {is} thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from
the lowest hell.
86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent
{men} have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
86:15 But thou, O Lord, {art} a God full of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
86:16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy
servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
86:17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see {it}, and be
ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
87:1 His foundation {is} in the holy mountains.
87:2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold
Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man {was} born there.
87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the
highest himself shall establish her.
87:6 The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, {that} this {man} was
born there. Selah.
87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments {shall be there}: all my
{springs} are in thee.
88:1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day {and} night before thee:
88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man {that
hath} no strength:
88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou
rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted {me} with all thy
waves. Selah.
88:8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an
abomination unto them: {I am} shut up, and I cannot come forth.
88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon
thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
88:10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise {and} praise
thee? Selah.
88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? {or} thy faithfulness
in destruction?
88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land
of forgetfulness?
88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer
prevent thee.
88:14 Lord, why castest thou off my soul? {why} hidest thou thy face from me?
88:15 I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer
thy terrors I am distracted.
88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about
together.
88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, {and} mine acquaintance into
darkness.
89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make
known thy faithfulness to all generations.
89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt
thou establish in the very heavens.
89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all
generations. Selah.
89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in
the congregation of the saints.
89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? {who} among the sons
of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?
89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had
in reverence of all {them that are} about him.
89:8 O Lord God of hosts, who {is} a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy
faithfulness round about thee?
89:9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou
stillest them.
89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast
scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
89:11 The heavens {are} thine, the earth also {is} thine: {as for} the world
and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
89:12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name.
89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, {and} high is thy right hand.
89:14 Justice and judgment {are} the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth
shall go before thy face.
89:15 Blessed {is} the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O
Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness
shall they be exalted.
89:17 For thou {art} the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn
shall be exalted.
89:18 For the Lord {is} our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is {our} king.
89:19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help
upon {one that is} mighty; I have exalted {one} chosen out of the people.
89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen
him.
89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict
him.
89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate
him.
89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy {shall be} with him: and in my name
shall his horn be exalted.
89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
89:26 He shall cry unto me, thou {art} my father, my God, and the rock of my
salvation.
89:27 Also I will make him {my} firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
89:29 His seed also will I make {to endure} for ever, and his throne as the
days of heaven.
89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity
with stripes.
89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor
suffer my faithfulness to fail.
89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my
lips.
89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and {as} a faithful witness
in heaven. Selah.
89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine
anointed.
89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his
crown {by casting it} to the ground.
89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds
to ruin.
89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all
his enemies to rejoice.
89:43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to
stand in the battle.
89:44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the
ground.
89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with
shame. Selah.
89:46 How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn
like fire?
89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
89:48 What man {is he that} liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver
his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
89:49 Lord, where {are} thy former lovingkindnesses, {which} thou swarest unto
David in thy truth?
89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how {I} do bear in my bosom
the {reproach of all} the mighty people;
89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have
reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
89:52 Blessed {be} the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the
earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou {art} God.
90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight {are but} as yesterday when it is past,
and {as} a watch in the night.
90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the
morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up.
90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut
down, and withereth.
90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret {sins} in the light
of thy countenance.
90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a
tale {that is told}.
90:10 The days of our years {are} threescore years and ten; and if by reason of
strength {they be} fourscore years, yet {is} their strength labour and sorrow;
for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, {so is}
thy wrath.
90:12 So teach {us} to number our days, that we may apply {our} hearts unto
wisdom.
90:13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all
our days.
90:15 Make us glad according to the days {wherein} thou hast afflicted us,
{and} the years {wherein} we have seen evil.
90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
90:17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the
work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty.
91:2 I will say of the Lord, {He is} my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him
will I trust.
91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, {and} from the
noisome pestilence.
91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou
trust: his truth {shall be thy} shield and buckler.
91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; {nor} for the arrow
{that} flieth by day;
91:6 {Nor} for the pestilence {that} walketh in darkness; {nor} for the
destruction {that} wasteth at noonday.
91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand;
{but} it shall not come nigh thee.
91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
91:9 Because thou hast made the Lord, {which is} my refuge, {even} the most
High, thy habitation;
91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling.
91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways.
91:12 They shall bear thee up in {their} hands, lest thou dash thy foot against
a stone.
91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon
shalt thou trample under feet.
91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I
will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I {will be} with him in
trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
92:1 {It is a} good {thing} to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises
unto thy name, O most High:
92:2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness
every night,
92:3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp
with a solemn sound.
92:4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the
works of thy hands.
92:5 O Lord, how great are thy works! {and} thy thoughts are very deep.
92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity
do flourish; {it is} that they shall be destroyed for ever:
92:8 But thou, Lord, {art most} high for evermore.
92:9 For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all
the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like {the horn of} an unicorn: I shall be
anointed with fresh oil.
92:11 Mine eye also shall see {my desire} on mine enemies, {and} mine ears
shall hear {my desire} of the wicked that rise up against me.
92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a
cedar in Lebanon.
92:13 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the
courts of our God.
92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and
flourishing;
92:15 To shew that the Lord {is} upright: {he is} my rock, and {there is} no
unrighteousness in him.
93:1 The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with
strength, {wherewith} he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished,
that it cannot be moved.
93:2 Thy throne {is} established of old: thou {art} from everlasting.
93:3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their waves.
93:4 The Lord on high {is} mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, {than}
the mighty waves of the sea.
93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for
ever.
94:1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance
belongeth, shew thyself.
94:2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
94:3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
94:4 {How long} shall they utter {and} speak hard things? {and} all the workers
of iniquity boast themselves?
94:5 They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
94:7 Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob
regard {it}.
94:8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and {ye fools}, when will ye be
wise?
94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall
he not see?
94:10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth
man knowledge, {shall not he know}?
94:11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they {are} vanity.
94:12 Blessed {is} the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out
of thy law;
94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit
be digged for the wicked.
94:14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his
inheritance.
94:15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in
heart shall follow it.
94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? {or} who will stand up for
me against the workers of iniquity?
94:17 Unless the Lord {had been} my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth
mischief by a law?
94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and
condemn the innocent blood.
94:22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God {is} the rock of my refuge.
94:23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off
in their own wickedness; {yea}, the Lord our God shall cut them off.
95:1 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock
of our salvation.
95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise
unto him with psalms.
95:3 For the Lord {is} a great God, and a great King above all gods.
95:4 In his hand {are} the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills
{is} his also.
95:5 The sea {is} his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry {land}.
95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our
maker.
95:7 For he {is} our God; and we {are} the people of his pasture, and the sheep
of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of
temptation in the wilderness:
95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with {this} generation, and said, It {is}
a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
95:11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
96:1 O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
96:2 Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to
day.
96:3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
96:4 For the Lord {is} great, and greatly to be praised: he {is} to be feared
above all gods.
96:5 For all the gods of the nations {are} idols: but the Lord made the
heavens.
96:6 Honour and majesty {are} before him: strength and beauty {are} in his
sanctuary.
96:7 Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory
and strength.
96:8 Give unto the Lord the glory {due unto} his name: bring an offering, and
come into his courts.
96:9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the
earth.
96:10 Say among the heathen {that} the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be
established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
96:11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and
the fulness thereof.
96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all that {is} therein: then shall all the
trees of the wood rejoice
96:13 Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he
shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
97:1 The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be
glad {thereof}.
97:2 Clouds and darkness {are} round about him: righteousness and judgment
{are} the habitation of his throne.
97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
97:4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of
the Lord of the whole earth.
97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of
idols: worship him, all {ye} gods.
97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of
thy judgments, O Lord.
97:9 For thou, Lord, {art} high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above
all gods.
97:10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints;
he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
97:12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of
his holiness.
98:1 O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his
right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
98:2 The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly
shewed in the sight of the heathen.
98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all
the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
98:4 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and
rejoice, and sing praise.
98:5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the
King.
98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein.
98:8 Let the floods clap {their} hands: let the hills be joyful together
98:9 Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness
shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
99:1 The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth {between} the
Cherubims; let the earth be moved.
99:2 The Lord {is} great in Zion; and he {is} high above all the people.
99:3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; {for} it {is} holy.
99:4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou
executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
99:5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; {for} he {is}
holy.
99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon
his name; they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
99:7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and
the ordinance {that} he gave them.
99:8 Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them,
though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
99:9 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the Lord our God
{is} holy.
100:1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
100:2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
100:3 Know ye that the Lord he {is} God: {it is} he {that} hath made us, and
not we ourselves; {we are} his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, {and} into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him, {and} bless his name.
100:5 For the Lord {is} good; his mercy {is} everlasting; and his truth
{endureth} to all generations.
101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.
101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto
me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that
turn aside; {it} shall not cleave to me.
101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked {person}.
101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath
an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
101:6 Mine eyes {shall be} upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell
with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth
lies shall not tarry in my sight.
101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all
wicked doers from the city of the Lord.
102:1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day {when} I am in trouble; incline
thine ear unto me: in the day {when} I call answer me speedily.
102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an
hearth.
102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my
bread.
102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
102:7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
102:8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; {and} they that are mad against me
are sworn against me.
102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up,
and cast me down.
102:11 My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like
grass.
102:12 But thou, O Lord, shalt endure forever; and thy remembrance unto all
generations.
102:13 Thou shalt arise, {and} have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour
her, yea, the set time, is come.
102:14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust
thereof.
102:15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the
earth thy glory.
102:16 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their
prayer.
102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which
shall be created shall praise the Lord.
102:19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven
did the Lord behold the earth;
102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed
to death;
102:21 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
102:22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the
Lord.
102:23 He Weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years
{are} throughout all generations.
102:25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens {are}
the work of thy hands.
102:26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old
like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
102:27 But thou {art} the same, and thy years shall have no end.
102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be
established before thee.
103:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, {bless} his holy
name.
103:2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
lovingkindness and tender mercies;
103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good {things; so that} thy youth is renewed
like the eagle's.
103:6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
103:8 The Lord {is} merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in
mercy.
103:9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep {his anger} for ever.
103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to
our iniquities.
103:11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, {so} great is his mercy
toward them that fear him.
103:12 As far as the east is from the west, {so} far hath he removed our
transgressions from us.
103:13 Like as a father pitieth {his} children, {so} the Lord pitieth them that
fear him.
103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we {are} dust.
103:15 {As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he
flourisheth.
103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof
shall know it no more.
103:17 But the mercy of the Lord {is} from everlasting to everlasting upon them
that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
commandments to do them.
103:19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth
over all.
103:20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his
commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
103:21 Bless ye the Lord, all {ye} his hosts; {ye} ministers of his, that do
his pleasure.
103:22 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the
Lord, O my soul.
104:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art
clothed with honour and majesty.
104:2 Who coverest {thyself} with light as {with} a garment: who stretchest out
the heavens like a curtain:
104:3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds
his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
104:5 {Who} laid the foundations of the earth, {that} it should not be removed
for ever.
104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as {with} a garment: the waters stood
above the mountains.
104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
104:8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place
which thou hast founded for them.
104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not
again to cover the earth.
104:10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, {which} run among the hills.
104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their
thirst.
104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, {which}
sing among the branches.
104:13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the
fruit of thy works.
104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of
man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
104:15 And wine {that} maketh glad the heart of man, {and} oil to make {his}
face to shine, and bread {which} strengtheneth man's heart.
104:16 The trees of the Lord are full {of sap}; the cedars of Lebanon, which he
hath planted;
104:17 Where the birds make their nests: {as for} the stork, the fir trees
{are} her house.
104:18 The high hills {are} a refuge for the wild goats; {and} the rocks for
the conies.
104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
104:20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the
forest do creep {forth}.
104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
104:22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in
their dens.
104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
104:24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:
the earth is full of thy riches.
104:25 {So is} this great and wide sea, wherein {are} things creeping
innumerable, both small and great beasts.
104:26 There go the ships: {there is} that leviathan, {whom} thou hast made to
play therein.
104:27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give {them} their meat in due
season.
104:28 {That} thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are
filled with good.
104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath,
they die, and return to their dust.
104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the
face of the earth.
104:31 The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in
his works.
104:32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and
they smoke.
104:33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my
God while I have my being.
104:34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
104:35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no
more. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord.
105:1 O Give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds
among the people.
105:2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the
Lord.
105:4 Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the
judgments of his mouth;
105:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
105:7 He {is} the Lord our God: his judgments {are} in all the earth.
105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word {which} he commanded
to a thousand generations.
105:9 Which {covenant} he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
105:10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, {and} to Israel {for} an
everlasting covenant:
105:11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your
inheritance:
105:12 When they were {but} a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers
in it.
105:13 When they went from one nation to another, from {one} kingdom to another
people;
105:14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their
sakes;
105:15 {Saying}, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
105:16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff
of bread.
105:17 He sent a man before them, {even} Joseph, {who} was sold for a servant:
105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.
105:20 The king sent and loosed him; {even} the ruler of the people, and let
him go free.
105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their
enemies.
105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his
servants.
105:26 He sent Moses his servant; {and} Aaron whom he had chosen.
105:27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his
word.
105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
105:30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their
kings.
105:31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, {and} lice in all their
coasts.
105:32 He gave them hail for rain, {and} flaming fire in their land.
105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of
their coasts.
105:34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without
number,
105:35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of
their ground.
105:36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their
strength.
105:37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and {there was} not one
feeble {person} among their tribes.
105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
105:40 {The people} asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the
bread of heaven.
105:41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry
places {like} a river.
105:42 For he remembered his holy promise, {and} Abraham his servant.
105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, {and} his chosen with
gladness:
105:44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of
the people;
105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the
Lord.
106:1 Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for {he is} good: for
his mercy {endureth} for ever.
106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? {who} can shew forth all his
praise?
106:3 Blessed {are} they that keep judgment, {and} he that doeth righteousness
at all times.
106:4 Remember me, O Lord, with the favour {that thou bearest unto} thy people:
O visit me with thy salvation;
106:5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness
of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done
wickedly.
106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the
multitude of thy mercies; but provoked {him} at the sea, {even} at the Red sea.
106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his
mighty power to be known.
106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through
the depths, as through the wilderness.
106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated {them}, and redeemed
them from the hand of the enemy.
106:11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
106:12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
106:13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
106:14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, {and} Aaron the saint of the Lord.
106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of
Abiram.
106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
106:20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth
grass.
106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, {and} terrible things by the Red sea.
106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen
stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy
{them}.
106:24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
106:25 But murmured in their tents, {and} hearkened not unto the voice of the
Lord.
106:26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the
wilderness:
106:27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in
the lands.
106:28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the
dead.
106:29 Thus they provoked {him} to anger with their inventions: and the plague
brake in upon them.
106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and {so} the plague was
stayed.
106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for
evermore.
106:32 They angered {him} also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill
with Moses for their sakes:
106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his
lips.
106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded
them:
106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
106:38 And shed innocent blood, {even} the blood of their sons and of their
daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was
polluted with blood.
106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with
their own inventions.
106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch
that he abhorred his own inheritance.
106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them
ruled over them.
106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection
under their hand.
106:43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked {him} with their
counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the
multitude of his mercies.
106:46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
106:47 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give
thanks unto thy holy name, {and} to triumph in thy praise.
106:48 Blessed {be} the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and
let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord.
107:1 O give thanks unto the Lord, for {he is} good: for his mercy {endureth}
for ever.
107:2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say {so}, whom he hath redeemed from the
hand of the enemy;
107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west,
from the north, and from the south.
107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to
dwell in.
107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
107:6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, {and} he delivered them
out of their distresses.
107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of
habitation.
107:8 Oh that {men} would praise the {Lord} for his goodness, and {for} his
wonderful works to the children of men!
107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with
goodness.
107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, {being} bound in
affliction and iron;
107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the
counsel of the most High:
107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and
{there was} none to help.
107:13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, {and} he saved them out
of their distresses.
107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their
bands in sunder.
107:15 Oh that {men} would praise the Lord {for} his goodness, and {for} his
wonderful works to the children of men!
107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in
sunder.
107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities,
are afflicted.
107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the
gates of death.
107:19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, {and} he saveth them out
of their distresses.
107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered {them} from their
destructions.
107:21 Oh that {men} would praise the Lord {for} his goodness, and {for} his
wonderful works to the children of men!
107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his
works with rejoicing.
107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
107:24 These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the
waves thereof.
107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their
soul is melted because of trouble.
107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their
wit's end.
107:28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out
of their distresses.
107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
107:30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their
desired haven.
107:31 Oh that {men} would praise the Lord {for} his goodness, and {for} his
wonderful works to the children of men!
107:32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise
him in the assembly of the elders.
107:33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry
ground;
107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell
therein.
107:35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into
watersprings.
107:36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city
for habitation;
107:37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of
increase.
107:38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and
suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
107:39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction,
and sorrow.
107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the
wilderness, {where there is} no way.
107:41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh {him}
families like a flock.
107:42 The righteous shall see {it}, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop
her mouth.
107:43 Whoso {is} wise, and will observe these {things}, even they shall
understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
108:1 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my
glory.
108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I {myself} will awake early.
108:3 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises
unto thee among the nations.
108:4 For thy mercy {is} great above the heavens: and thy truth {reacheth} unto
the clouds.
108:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the
earth;
108:6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save {with} thy right hand, and answer
me.
108:7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
108:8 Gilead {is} mine; Manasseh {is} mine; Ephraim also {is} the strength of
mine head; Judah {is} my lawgiver;
108:9 Moab {is} my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia
will I triumph.
108:10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
108:11 {Wilt} not {thou}, O God, {who} hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O
God, go forth with our hosts?
108:12 Give us help from trouble: for vain {is} the help of man.
108:13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he {it is that} shall tread down
our enemies.
109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I {give myself unto} prayer.
109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become
sin.
109:8 Let his days be few; {and} let another take his office.
109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek {their
bread} also out of their desolate places.
109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil
his labour.
109:12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to
favour his fatherless children.
109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; {and} in the generation following let
their name be blotted out.
109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not
the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory
of them from the earth.
109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor
and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it
come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
109:19 Let it be unto him as the garment {which} covereth him, and for a girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
109:20 {Let} this {be} the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of
them that speak evil against my soul.
109:21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy
mercy {is} good, deliver thou me.
109:22 For I {am} poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as
the locust.
109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: {when} they looked upon me they
shaked their heads.
109:26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
109:27 That they may know that this {is} thy hand; {that} thou, Lord, hast done
it.
109:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
109:30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him
among the multitude.
109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save {him} from
those that condemn his soul.
110:1 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
110:2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the
midst of thine enemies.
110:3 Thy people {shall be} willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of
holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
110:4 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou {art} a priest for ever
after the order of Melchizedek.
110:5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his
wrath.
110:6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill {the places} with the
dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
110:7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the
head.
111:1 Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with {my} whole heart, in the
assembly of the upright, and {in} the congregation.
111:2 The works of the Lord {are} great, sought out of all them that have
pleasure therein.
111:3 His work {is} honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for
ever.
111:4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord {is} gracious
and full of compassion.
111:5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of
his covenant.
111:6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them
the heritage of the heathen.
111:7 The works of his hands {are} verity and judgment; all his commandments
{are} sure.
111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever, {and are} done in truth and
uprightness.
111:9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for
ever: holy and reverend {is} his name.
111:10 The fear of the Lord {is} the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding
have all they that do {his commandments}: his praise endureth for ever.
112:1 Praise ye the Lord. Blessed {is} the man {that} feareth the Lord, {that}
delighteth greatly in his commandments.
112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall
be blessed.
112:3 Wealth and riches {shall be} in his house: and {his righteousness}
endureth for ever.
112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: {he is} gracious,
and full of compassion, and righteous.
112:5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with
discretion.
112:6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in
everlasting remembrance.
112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in
the Lord.
112:8 His heart {is} established, he shall not be afraid, until he see {his
desire} upon his enemies.
112:9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth
for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
112:10 The wicked shall see {it}, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his
teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
113:1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of
the Lord.
113:2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.
113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's
name {is} to be praised.
113:4 The Lord {is} high above all nations, {and} his glory above the heavens.
113:5 Who {is} like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high,
113:6 Who humbleth {himself} to behold {the things that are} in heaven, and in
the earth!
113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, {and} lifteth the needy out of
the dunghill;
113:8 That he may set {him} with princes, {even} with the princes of his
people.
113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, {and to be} a joyful mother of
children. Praise ye the Lord.
114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of
strange language;
114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, {and} Israel his dominion.
114:3 The sea saw {it}, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, {and} the little hills like lambs.
114:5 What {ailed} thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, {that}
thou wast driven back?
114:6 Ye mountains, {that} ye skipped like rams; {and} ye little hills, like
lambs?
114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the
God of Jacob;
114:8 Which turned the rock {into} a standing water, the flint into a fountain
of waters.
115:1 Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy
mercy, {and} for thy truth's sake.
115:2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where {is} now their God?
115:3 But our God {is} in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
115:4 Their idols {are} silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
115:6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
115:7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not:
neither speak they through their throat.
115:8 They that make them are like unto them; {so is} every one that trusteth
in them.
115:9 O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he {is} their help and their shield.
115:10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he {is} their help and their
shield.
115:11 Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he {is} their help and their
shield.
115:12 The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless {us}; he will bless the
house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
115:13 He will bless them that fear the Lord, {both} small and great.
115:14 The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
115:15 Ye {are} blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
115:16 The heaven, {even} the heavens, {are} the Lord's: but the earth hath he
given to the children of men.
115:17 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
115:18 But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise
the Lord.
116:1 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice {and} my supplications.
116:2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon
{him} as long as I live.
116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon
me: I found trouble and sorrow.
116:4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver
my soul.
116:5 Gracious {is} the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God {is} merciful.
116:6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with
thee.
116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, {and}
my feet from falling.
116:9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
116:11 I said in my haste, All men {are} liars.
116:12 What shall I render unto the Lord {for} all his benefits toward me?
116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
116:14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord {is} the death of his saints.
116:16 O Lord, truly I {am} thy servant; I {am} thy servant, {and} the son of
thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon
the name of the Lord.
116:18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
116:19 In the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
Praise ye the Lord.
117:1 O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
117:2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord
{endureth} for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
118:1 O give thanks unto the Lord; for {he is} good: because his mercy
{endureth} for ever.
118:2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy {endureth} for ever.
118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy {endureth} for ever.
118:4 Let them now that fear the Lord say, that his mercy {endureth} for ever.
118:5 I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, {and set me} in
a large place.
118:6 The Lord {is} on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
118:7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see {my
desire} upon them that hate me.
118:8 {It is} better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
118:9 {It is} better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
118:10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I
destroy them.
118:11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name
of the Lord I will destroy them.
118:12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of
thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
118:13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.
118:14 The Lord {is} my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation {is} in the tabernacles of the
righteous: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
118:16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted: the right hand of the Lord doeth
valiantly.
118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.
118:18 The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto
death.
118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, {and} I will
praise the Lord:
118:20 This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter.
118:21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
118:22 The stone {which} the builders refused is become the head {stone} of the
corner.
118:23 This is the Lord's doing; it {is} marvellous in our eyes.
118:24 This {is} the day {which} the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be
glad in it.
118:25 Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now
prosperity.
118:26 Blessed {be} he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you
out of the house of the Lord.
118:27 God {is} the Lord, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with
cords, {even} unto the horns of the altar.
118:28 Thou {art} my God, and I will praise thee: {thou art} my God, I will
exalt thee.
118:29 O give thanks unto the Lord; for {he is} good: for his mercy {endureth}
for ever.
119:1 Blessed {are} the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
119:2 Blessed {are} they that keep his testimonies, {and that} seek him with
the whole heart.
119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
119:4 Thou hast commanded {us} to keep thy precepts diligently.
119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
commandments.
119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned
thy righteous judgments.
119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed {thereto}
according to thy word.
119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy
commandments.
119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
119:12 Blessed {art} thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.
119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as {much as} in all
riches.
119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
119:17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, {that} I may live, and keep thy word.
119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
119:19 I {am} a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing {that it hath} unto thy judgments at
all times.
119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud {that are} cursed, which do err from thy
commandments.
119:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
119:23 Princes also did sit {and} speak against me: {but} thy servant did
meditate in thy statutes.
119:24 Thy testimonies also {are} my delight {and} my counsellers.
119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
119:26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy
wondrous works.
119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy
word.
119:29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid {before me}.
119:31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.
119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my
heart.
119:33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it {unto}
the end.
119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it
with {my} whole heart.
119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; {and} quicken thou me in thy
way.
119:38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who {is devoted} to thy fear.
119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments {are} good.
119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
righteousness.
119:41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, {even} thy salvation,
according to thy word.
119:42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust
in thy word.
119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped
in thy judgments.
119:44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be
ashamed.
119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved;
and I will meditate in thy statutes.
119:49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to
hope.
119:50 This {is} my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
119:51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: {yet} have I not declined
from thy law.
119:52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy
law.
119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
119:55 I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.
119:56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
119:57 {Thou art} my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.
119:58 I intreated thy favour with {my} whole heart: be merciful unto me
according to thy word.
119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
119:60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: {but} I have not forgotten thy
law.
119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy
righteous judgments.
119:63 I {am} a companion of all {them} that fear thee, and of them that keep
thy precepts.
119:64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
119:65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word.
119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
commandments.
119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
119:68 Thou {art} good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: {but} I will keep thy precepts
with {my} whole heart.
119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; {but} I delight in thy law.
119:71 {It is} good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy
statutes.
119:72 The law of thy mouth {is} better unto me than thousands of gold and
silver.
119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I
may learn thy commandments.
119:74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped
in thy word.
119:75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments {are} right, and {that} thou in
faithfulness hast afflicted me.
119:76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to
thy word unto thy servant.
119:77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law {is}
my delight.
119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a
cause: {but} I will meditate in thy precepts.
119:79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy
testimonies.
119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
119:81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: {but} I hope in thy word.
119:82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy
statutes.
119:84 How many {are} the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment
on them that persecute me?
119:85 The proud have digged pits for me, which {are} not after thy law.
119:86 All thy commandments {are} faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help
thou me.
119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
119:88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of
thy mouth.
119:89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
119:90 Thy faithfulness {is} unto all generations: thou hast established the
earth, and it abideth.
119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all {are} thy
servants.
119:92 Unless thy law {had been} my delights, I should then have perished in
mine affliction.
119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
119:94 I {am} thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.
119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: {but} I will consider thy
testimonies.
119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection: {but} thy commandment {is}
exceeding broad.
119:97 O how love I thy law! it {is} my meditation all the day.
119:98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for
they {are} ever with me.
119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies
{are} my meditation.
119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy
word.
119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! {yea, sweeter} than honey to my
mouth!
119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false
way.
119:105 Thy word {is} a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform {it}, that I will keep thy righteous
judgments.
119:107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.
119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and
teach me thy judgments.
119:109 My soul {is} continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they {are}
the rejoicing of my heart.
119:112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, {even unto}
the end.
119:113 I hate {vain} thoughts: but thy law do I love.
119:114 Thou {art} my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
119:115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my
God.
119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be
ashamed of my hope.
119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy
statutes continually.
119:118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their
deceit {is} falsehood.
119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth {like} dross: therefore I
love thy testimonies.
119:120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
righteousness.
119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy
statutes.
119:125 I {am} thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy
testimonies.
119:126 {It is} time for {thee}, Lord, to work: {for} they have made void thy
law.
119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
119:128 Therefore I esteem all {thy} precepts {concerning} all {things to be}
right; {and} I hate every false way.
119:129 Thy testimonies {are} wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto
the simple.
119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto
those that love thy name.
119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over
me.
119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
119:137 Righteous {art} thou, O Lord, and upright {are} thy judgments.
119:138 Thy testimonies {that} thou hast commanded {are} righteous and very
faithful.
119:139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy
words.
119:140 Thy word {is} very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
119:141 I {am} small and despised: {yet} do not I forget thy precepts.
119:142 Thy righteousness {is} an everlasting righteousness, and thy law {is}
the truth.
119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: {yet} thy commandments {are}
my delights.
119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies {is} everlasting: give me
understanding, and I shall live.
119:145 I cried with {my} whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy
statutes.
119:146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
119:147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
119:148 Mine eyes prevent the {night} watches, that I might meditate in thy
word.
119:149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me
according to thy judgment.
119:150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
119:151 Thou {art} near, O Lord; and all thy commandments {are} truth.
119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded
them for ever.
119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
119:155 Salvation {is} far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
119:156 Great {are} thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy
judgments.
119:157 Many {are} my persecutors and mine enemies; {yet} do I not decline from
thy testimonies.
119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy
word.
119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy
lovingkindness.
119:160 Thy word {is} true {from} the beginning: and every one of thy righteous
judgments {endureth} for ever.
119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in
awe of thy word.
119:162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
119:163 I hate and abhor lying: {but} thy law do I love.
119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend
them.
119:166 Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
119:167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways {are}
before thee.
119:169 Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding
according to thy word.
119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments {are}
righteousness.
119:173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law {is} my delight.
119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help
me.
119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not
forget thy commandments.
120:1 In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.
120:2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, {and} from a deceitful tongue.
120:3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou
false tongue?
120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, {that} I dwell in the tents of
Kedar!
120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
120:7 I {am for} peace: but when I speak, they {are} for war.
121:1 I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
121:2 My help {cometh} from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not
slumber.
121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
121:5 The Lord {is} thy keeper: the Lord {is} thy shade upon thy right hand.
121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
121:7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
121:8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time
forth, and even for evermore.
122:1 I Was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.
122:2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
122:3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
122:4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of
Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
122:7 Peace be within thy walls, {and} prosperity within thy palaces.
122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace {be} within
thee.
122:9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.
123:1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants {look} unto the hand of their masters,
{and} as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes {wait}
upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
123:3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly
filled with contempt.
123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at
ease, {and} with the contempt of the proud.
124:1 If {it had} not {been} the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;
124:2 If {it had} not {been} the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up
against us:
124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against
us:
124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
124:5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
124:6 Blessed {be} the Lord, who hath not given us {as} a prey to their teeth.
124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare
is broken, and we are escaped.
124:8 Our help {is} in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
125:1 They that trust in the Lord {shall be} as mount Zion, {which} cannot be
removed, {but} abideth for ever.
125:2 {As} the mountains {are} round about Jerusalem, so the Lord {is} round
about his people from henceforth even for ever.
125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous;
lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
125:4 Do good, O Lord, unto {those that be} good, and to {them that are}
upright in their hearts.
125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead
them forth with the workers of iniquity: {but} peace {shall be} upon Israel.
126:1 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that
dream.
126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing:
then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
126:3 The Lord hath done great things for us; {whereof} we are glad.
126:4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.
126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves {with him}.
127:1 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it:
except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh {but} in vain.
127:2 {It is} vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread
of sorrows: {for} so he giveth his beloved sleep.
127:3 Lo, children {are} an heritage of the Lord: {and} the fruit of the womb
{is his} reward.
127:4 As arrows {are} in the hand of a mighty man; so {are} children of the
youth.
127:5 Happy {is} the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be
ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
128:1 Blessed {is} every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.
128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy {shalt} thou {be},
and {it shall be} well with thee.
128:3 Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy
children like olive plants round about thy table.
128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
128:5 The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of
Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, {and} peace upon Israel.
129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not
prevailed against me.
129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
129:4 The Lord {is} righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
129:6 Let them be as the grass {upon} the housetops, which withereth afore it
groweth up:
129:7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his
bosom.
129:8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord {be} upon you:
we bless you in the name of the Lord.
130:1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
130:2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
130:3 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
130:4 But {there is} forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
130:5 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
130:6 My soul {waiteth} for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning:
{I say, more than} they that watch for the morning.
130:7 Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord {there is} mercy, and with
him {is} plenteous redemption.
130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
131:1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise
myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of
his mother: my soul {is} even as a weaned child.
131:3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever.
132:1 Lord, remember David, {and} all his afflictions:
132:2 How he sware unto the Lord, {and} vowed unto the mighty {God} of Jacob;
132:3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my
bed;
132:4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, {or} slumber to mine eyelids,
132:5 Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty {God}
of Jacob.
132:6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
132:7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
132:8 Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
132:9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout
for joy.
132:10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
132:11 The Lord hath sworn {in} truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of
the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
132:12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall
teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
132:13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired {it} for his habitation.
132:14 This {is} my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with
bread.
132:16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall
shout aloud for joy.
132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for
mine anointed.
132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown
flourish.
133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant {it is} for brethren to dwell together
in unity!
133:2 {It is} like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the
beard, {even} Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
133:3 As the dew of Hermon, {and as the dew} that descended upon the mountains
of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, {even} life for evermore.
134:1 Behold, bless ye the Lord, all {ye} servants of the Lord, which by night
stand in the house of the Lord.
134:2 Lift up your hands {in} the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
134:3 The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
135:1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the name of the Lord; praise {him}, O ye
servants of the Lord.
135:2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our
God.
135:3 Praise the Lord; for the Lord {is} good: sing praises unto his name; for
{it is} pleasant.
135:4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, {and} Israel for his
peculiar treasure.
135:5 For I know that the Lord {is} great, and {that} our Lord {is} above all
gods.
135:6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased, {that} did he in heaven, and in earth, in
the seas, and all deep places.
135:7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
135:9 {Who} sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
135:10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms
of Canaan:
135:12 And gave their land {for} an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his
people.
135:13 Thy name, O Lord, {endureth} for ever; {and} thy memorial, O Lord,
throughout all generations.
135:14 For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself
concerning his servants.
135:15 The idols of the heathen {are} silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there {any} breath in
their mouths.
135:18 They that make them are like unto them: {so is} every one that trusteth
in them.
135:19 Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the Lord, O house of Aaron:
135:20 Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.
135:21 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye
the Lord.
136:1 O give thanks unto the Lord; for {he is} good: for his mercy {endureth}
for ever.
136:2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
136:3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
136:4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy {endureth} for
ever.
136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy
{endureth} for ever.
136:7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy {endureth} for
ever:
136:11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy {endureth} for
ever:
136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy
{endureth} for ever.
136:13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy {endureth}
for ever:
136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
{endureth} for ever:
136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy
{endureth} for ever.
136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy
{endureth} for ever.
136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:22 {Even} an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy {endureth} for
ever.
136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
136:24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy {endureth} for
ever.
136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
136:26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we
remembered Zion.
137:2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
137:3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and
they that wasted us {required of us} mirth, {saying}, Sing us {one} of the
songs of Zion.
137:4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget {her cunning}.
137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth;
if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said,
Rase {it}, rase {it, even} to the foundation thereof.
137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy {shall he be}, that
rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
137:9 Happy {shall he be}, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the
stones.
138:1 I Will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing
praise unto thee.
138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy
lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all
thy name.
138:3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, {and} strengthenedst me
{with} strength in my soul.
138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the
words of thy mouth.
138:5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great {is} the glory of
the Lord.
138:6 Though the Lord {be} high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the
proud he knoweth afar off.
138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt
stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand
shall save me.
138:8 The Lord will perfect {that which} concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord,
{endureth} for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
139:1 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known {me}.
139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my
thought afar off.
139:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted {with} all
my ways.
139:4 For {there is} not a word in my tongue, {but}, lo, O Lord, thou knowest
it altogether.
139:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
139:6 {Such} knowledge {is} too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot {attain}
unto it.
139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou {art} there: if I make my bed in hell,
behold, thou {art there}.
139:9 {If} I take the wings of the morning, {and} dwell in the uttermost parts
of the sea;
139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be
light about me.
139:12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the
day: the darkness and the light {are} both alike {to thee}.
139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's
womb.
139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully {and} wonderfully made:
marvellous {are} thy works; and {that} my soul knoweth right well.
139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, {and}
curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book
all {my members} were written, {which} in continuance were fashioned, when {as
yet there was} none of them.
139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum
of them!
139:18 {If} I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I
awake, I am still with thee.
139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye
bloody men.
139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, {and} thine enemies take {thy
name} in vain.
139:21 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with
those that rise up against thee?
139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
139:24 And see if {there be any} wicked way in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting.
140:1 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in {their} heart; continually are they gathered
together {for} war.
140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison {is}
under their lips. Selah.
140:4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the
violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by
the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
140:6 I said unto the Lord, Thou {art} my God: hear the voice of my
supplications, O Lord.
140:7 O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head
in the day of battle.
140:8 Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked
device; {lest} they exalt themselves. Selah.
140:9 {As for} the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of
their own lips cover them.
140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into
deep pits, that they rise not up again.
140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the
violent man to overthrow {him}.
140:12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, {and} the
right of the poor.
140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall
dwell in thy presence.
141:1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I
cry unto thee.
141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee {as} incense; {and} the lifting up
of my hands {as} the evening sacrifice.
141:3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
141:4 Incline not my heart to {any} evil thing, to practise wicked works with
men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
141:5 Let the righteous smite me; {it shall be} a kindness: and let him reprove
me; {it shall be} an excellent oil, {which} shall not break my head: for yet my
prayer also {shall be} in their calamities.
141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my
words; for they are sweet.
141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and
cleaveth {wood} upon the earth.
141:8 But mine eyes {are} unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave
not my soul destitute.
141:9 Keep me from the snares {which} they have laid for me, and the gins of
the workers of iniquity.
141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
142:1 I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I
make my supplication.
142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In
the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
142:4 I looked on {my} right hand, and beheld, but {there was} no man that
would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
142:5 I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou {art} my refuge {and} my portion
in the land of the living.
142:6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my
persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous
shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
143:1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness
answer me, {and} in thy righteousness.
143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no
man living be justified.
143:3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to
the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long
dead.
143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is
desolate.
143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the
work of thy hands.
143:6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul {thirsteth} after thee, as a
thirsty land. Selah.
143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me,
lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
143:8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I
trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul
unto thee.
143:9 Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
143:10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou {art} my God: thy spirit {is} good;
lead me into the land of uprightness.
143:11 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake
bring my soul out of trouble.
143:12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict
my soul: for I {am} thy servant.
144:1 Blessed {be} the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, {and}
my fingers to fight:
144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield,
and {he} in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
144:3 Lord, what {is} man, that thou takest knowledge of him! {or} the son of
man, that thou makest account of him!
144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
144:5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke.
144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and
destroy them.
144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters,
from the hand of strange children;
144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand {is} a right hand of
falsehood.
144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery {and} an
instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
144:10 {It is he} that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his
servant from the hurtful sword.
144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth
speaketh vanity, and their right hand {is} a right hand of falsehood:
144:12 That our sons {may be} as plants grown up in their youth; {that} our
daughters {may be} as corner stones, polished {after} the similitude of a
palace:
144:13 {That} our garners {may be} full, affording all manner of store: {that}
our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
144:14 {That} our oxen {may be} strong to labour; {that there be} no breaking
in, nor going out; that {there be} no complaining in our streets.
144:15 Happy {is that} people, that is in such a case: {yea}, happy {is that}
people, whose God {is} the Lord.
145:1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and
ever.
145:2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and
ever.
145:3 Great {is} the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness {is}
unsearchable.
145:4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy
mighty acts.
145:5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous
works.
145:6 And {men} shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will
declare thy greatness.
145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall
sing of thy righteousness.
145:8 The Lord {is} gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of
great mercy.
145:9 The Lord {is} good to all: and his tender mercies {are} over all his
works.
145:10 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless
thee.
145:11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious
majesty of his kingdom.
145:13 Thy kingdom {is} an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion {endureth}
throughout all generations.
145:14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all {those that be}
bowed down.
145:15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due
season.
145:16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living
thing.
145:17 The Lord {is} righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
145:18 The Lord {is} nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call
upon him in truth.
145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their
cry, and will save them.
145:20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he
destroy.
145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his
holy name for ever and ever.
146:1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.
146:2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God
while I have any being.
146:3 Put not your trust in princes, {nor} in the son of man, in whom {there
is} no help.
146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his
thoughts perish.
146:5 Happy {is he} that {hath} the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope {is}
in the Lord his God:
146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein {is}: which
keepeth truth for ever:
146:7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the
hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:
146:8 The Lord openeth {the eyes of} the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are
bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:
146:9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow:
but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
146:10 The Lord shall reign for ever, {even} thy God, O Zion, unto all
generations. Praise ye the Lord.
147:1 Praise ye the Lord: for {it is} good to sing praises unto our God; for
{it is} pleasant; {and} praise is comely.
147:2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of
Israel.
147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by {their} names.
147:5 Great {is} our Lord, and of great power: his understanding {is} infinite.
147:6 The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
147:7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our
God:
147:8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth,
who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
147:9 He giveth to the beast his food, {and} to the young ravens which cry.
147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure
in the legs of a man.
147:11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in
his mercy.
147:12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
147:13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy
children within thee.
147:14 He maketh peace {in} thy borders, {and} filleth thee with the finest of
the wheat.
147:15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon {earth}: his word runneth very
swiftly.
147:16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
147:18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow,
{and} the waters flow.
147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto
Israel.
147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and {as for his} judgments, they
have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
148:1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in
the heights.
148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that {be} above the
heavens.
148:5 Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were
created.
148:6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree
which shall not pass.
148:7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
148:9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
148:11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the
earth:
148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
148:13 Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent;
his glory {is} above the earth and heaven.
148:14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints;
{even} of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the Lord.
149:1 Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, {and} his praise in
the congregation of saints.
149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be
joyful in their King.
149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him
with the timbrel and harp.
149:4 For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek
with salvation.
149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
149:6 {Let} the high {praises} of God {be} in their mouth, and a two-edged
sword in their hand;
149:7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, {and} punishments upon the people;
149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his
saints. Praise ye the Lord.
150:1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the
firmament of his power.
150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent
greatness.
150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery
and harp.
150:4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.
150:5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding
cymbals.
150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
